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dancer, but she is also a supreme
. tor. Her technique is marvelous. But
it is classic. Every move is defined
(Continued From Page Eight.)
slid circumscribed -restraint being the
from whether writing for the slake ot • 'Inman - aim. Some few years ago as
for the magazines. Ills characters in a super in a number of tier productions
all American literature, no matter of I was constantly astonished by her pro-
what age they happen to be, evoke the • digious efforts toward perfection. I
• interest that the average clever group ! was often amazed to see her go through
if college boys evoke They are "smart," esercises that would have taxed a
NO matter how
noisy, talk smoothly and glibly and shampion athlete.
bane a rip and gu about their make-up, many times she has danced and acted
that arouse admiration and stir a spirit a pine, you will find her long before
of ❑onsradery on the audience. But they the rise of the curtain going through
lack that finer, soberer tone that comes fantastitc movements, limbering toes and
• with living, with thinking. with feeling, arms, wining hands, and spinning
blood-
with a
the air
, with the understanding of man and na• through
lure- that comes with the reaching out curdling speed. As a result, you
far, far into the depths of time and are entranced by her the first time,
space and brings to the audience a throb charmedwith her the second, and do
I of the universe, as is done by some of not care to see her the third in the
Because of that classic
' aloe great masters. His first drama was same piece.
written away back in the eighties. Some rigidity of hers, sloe lacks the abandon
IIf his better known are "La Belle of the newer dancers who are in re-
lent:se:I "Hearts of Oak." "Nleti and hellion against the set forms imposed
Women," "The Girl of the Golden upon life and all But she nevertheless
M est. I he last is a fine piece of work. still remains the foremost dancer in the
, It has chants atmosphere. Thor story world.
I has been set to music and produced on
These are a few of the foremost Jew-
the grand opera stage. "The Return of ish actresses. They sit enthroned on
Peter Grim," conic about half a decade Illy loftiest peaks of stagehand. But
later and shows a good deal of the there are many, very %cry many more
palywright's ripeness of years.
without whom the Whole histronic art
would be barren—would not make pos-
sible the Bernhardts, the Nazimovas.
The Jew as Producer.
Ilelaseo holds no less a plan, on the For in acting. like in all other arts,
\ nierican stage as producer than as it is not the few first magnitude stars
to playwright. He has presented to our that ma' • up the firmament. The stars
thrater - goers some of the world's great- of lesser brilliance are just as indis-
of things-lesser
est stars. Ile has made and unmade a pensable in the sch•me
vast number of America's foremost w- ones whose burdens are perhaps as oner-
ous, whose toils as interminable, whose
ary and actresses.
trilitilataitms as disheartening. But their
( - hark , : lintliman is another Jew who
has made and unmade some of the stores are rarely told, their tasks
talent oil the American stage. Iiis :nil: wetted perhaps among their, im-
The Jew in the Drama.
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academic education went no further sunhats' surroundings
ey es, s uch stars as David War.
than gramma school. But he had ac-
quirts.' a wonderful knowledge of men field Bertha Kalisch, 51:ithilde Cot-
and life while selling tickets in theaters teeny and many others are far, far
and reporting on a newspaper. His first ahier the mediocre multitude, even as
experience as a theater manager was judos-! brunt the serious point of view
acquired with a traveling show. Before the au deserves, Barney Bernard 'Yos-
hi , thirtieth year he had organized what es powers sufficient to entertain an
subsequently became known as the ;ffidiell e for a fees nenings in slicers-
Charles Frolinian Stock Company. Then sion. Then there is a host of others.
he became manager of half a cloven dd. - far atom being a discredit to any pet,-
ferent theaters in New York the lito- ilea though they arc not the leaders on
pine, the Criterion, the Lyceum, the the stage. Among theta is Louis Mann.
St:mirk. the Savoy, the Knickerlocker. lesaffiler Carr, Foist Nlarinciff, Leo
As his influence grew he transferred Ile trielodein, Morri3O11 Weber, Fields,
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part of his activities to England. where
Sam Bernard. "Al" Jolson, and George
Solney, lean Samuel Grt•enfield, whose
s in "Welcome Stranger" has
l'urk's Theater. the Globe, Adelphi, of
London. \\ ben he went down with pl.wed him in the front rank of present
Of course, we also
the Lusitaitia he was motinits1 by the day comedians.
But show uric
testses• our hue
theatrical world of two contment•.
Daniel Entitles:in, the oldest of the the family nn ithuut a blank sheep.
the
Screen.
Frolimati brothers survived the swinger
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had acquired most of his ethic,
I
In the lam dozen rears mot pictures
tali as an office boy on d nehValn , l!a, r reached the dignity of alit art—
from there lie drifted into the theatri- a high art. \tatty things possible on the
screen are absolutely impossible on the
c.il world, 1111l. rt . he StIkelilICIltIV
-ante manager of half a dorm different stage. So far the screen has not pro-
theaters in New York , •-Fifth i\ venue diced a literature of its own to speak
Theater. Madison Square, Lyceum. of. It is still in the borrowing stage.
Like his brother he was also
In this field the Jew is found more
, a 1,0,1a,, than as an a d o ," A s ide
r
manager of theaters iu London.
be became manager of the Duke
hind. \Viten Charles went down with from Reinhardt, Nazimova, kalisch and
the Isissitania. Daniel took over twist of a few others of the great stars, there
his brother's numerous theatrical enter - are few Jews acting for the scsreen.
. In the last few sears, howeser. Theda
prises.
in e I fammer.
Sam Harris, for years the associate ltara, Al ma R ub en , Ela
of George Cohan Inot a Jew I is an- stein, daughter of the famous grand
other Jew among the hog figures in the opera impresairo, Carmel 51yers, daub-
He was ter of Ralik Isidore Myers of Los
American theatrical world.
\'era Gordon and a few others
i born in New York in 1841 and is pear- \
f -educated. •\ t eleven lie ryas has e made a place for themselves in
ticallY
• thrown on his own resources. At seven- this field.
4th FLOOR UNIVERSITY BLDG. • teen lie entered into the management of ' Among America's photoplay produe-
I Various athletic enterprises. His first ere few names stand out with such
19 Grand River Ave, East
efforts for the stage was a comedy en- , prominence as those of William Fox,
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titled "Gay Morning Glories." After h Carl Leammele, Lewis J. Selznick, Mar-
i some years he became the joint pro- ens !stew, .Nelolph Ztikor, and Jesse is
poster with George M. Cohan of the Lasky.
By right the vaudeville stage, too.
( ohan and Ilarris Theater, and of the
Bronx h ies Howie, New York. and of should find a place here. But I must
I the Co lisn's Grand Opera House. OM leave it for another time. Suffice it to
say that the Jews have acquitted them-
cag TIffingh not essentially a producer of selves oil it as creditably as nil the
dramatic
stage and the screen.
dramas, Oscar Hammerstein deserves a
Ile Was born in Berlin,
place here.
Germany, in 18-17, and came to the is;
Unite d States i n 18(si. His activities
for the stage first began to manifest
themselves round plays% riling. Before
that he had invented a number of labor-
saving appliances. He wrote three one-' I
Abe W. Flueberg, Mgr.
act comedies in German and they o. - ere
all produced in New York. Then he I
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took to the business of managing, first
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of the theater and then of the grand
opera. It was he who built the Harlem •
Opera House. Then he became presi-
'h dent of the Hammerstein Opera Com- I
' parry.
And if newspaper reports arc correct
I we shall soon have another great few- ,
ish producer in America—Max Rein-
" board of Berlin. Reinhard is a man of
unusual powers and of very, very high
ideals. Let us hope that he will do for '
. the American theater what Hammer-
stein has done for the American grand
opera. Of course, these are not all the
names of the Jews engaged in pro-
' Liming and managing. There are %leg-
I field, Woods, Udder, Al !layman, Wil- •
liam Ilarris. Marc Klass. . A. H. Er- '
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longer, the Selwyns, the Shulierts and
Wal.
247
Warren & P. M. Ry.
many, many others, but space prevents
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Sli• is a Jewess of Dutch-French
parentage, baptized into the Catholic
church at twelve years of age. She
educated in a convent and to this
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other life and has to crowd her efforts
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VI EN NA. —T he anti-Semitic parties sculptor of considerable merit, having
have issued a special appeal plead- received honorable mention at a number
ing for the expulsion of all Eastern of exhibits in Paris. She claims that
Jews and demanding that the she wont,' have contented herself with
frontiers be closed against all new- much less renown in any of these fields,
as it would have left her work behind
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A report from Budapest states that her, whereas now she would leave only
somS very stormy scenes were wit- a ItIcasant memory.
Alla Nazimova brings to the West-
nessed in the Town Council during
the election of city officers. Deri ern world a wealth lif Orient:11 fire and
'
mystic
charm. She is a Jewess born in
who was vice-Mayor, was not re-
elected because lie is a Jew. The Crimea in 1879. The debt America owe:
her
is
for her parts in Ibsen. Ibsen
members of the liberal party kit the
sitting in disgust.
• had been tabooed in England as a "high-
brow," a sociologist, a reformer, a
philosplter-- everything sale what he
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tion was brought to .\ merits. The result
PARIS.—A report has been received , was that no actor or producer flared
from Odessa stating that the Polshe- I have anything to do with him. Nazi-
vtlei recently executed the following mova came to ,America and played lb-
on the charge that they were counter- ; sen and packed theaters for weeks on
revolutionary and speculators end. She showed us that Komi work
Shachars Itzkovitch. Simon, Golden- , , is letter than trash—for in literature
. ring, Ehiasburg. Greenberg, Yephin
j this alas! leas to be shown.
Scher, Groppelinan, Fogel. Snail and
PaVInnah, another ktissian Jewess is
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